Family Participation in Mental Health Care - the Vellore Experiment
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This paper describes the experiment of family participation practised in Mental Health Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore. An attitude study was conducted on a group of 94 relatives of patients .All the subjects showed a marked degree of change in their knowledge and attitudes on various aspects of mental health and illness.
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